I just submitted my list from spending 30 minutes at Bitter Lake Park counting ducks and "little birds" to the Great Backyard Bird Count. Look out at your backyard or take a walk through a park for 15 minutes or more and count what you see. Then enter it online.

( Bird list )

Songbirds fly three times faster than expected

Also notice that they stopover for refueling for a while at different locations--important for conservation efforts.

LOL Cakes and more LOL Cakes.

PS. The Google Logo today is creepy--more slasher film than ooey-gooey lovey-doveyness...

Check out the Google Logo in honor of Charles Darwin's 200th Birthday.

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Any theoretical remarks offered by a translator are bound to be an apology for his failures. Obviously no sane translator can allow himself to dream of success. He asks only for the best possible failure.

-Opening line of the Translator's Note, The Divine Comedy, trans by J. Ciardi

But wait! Now all of a sudden there is a Delicious toolbar that I didn't ask for! Gah!